The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-28

Ar Q meeting II Oldham, Eng, recently,
the mayor presiding, motion to ignore the
Queens jubilee was carried, whereupon the
mayor said there were enough present in
favor Of the celebration to warrant the 60
ing on with the preparations for the event.
A great uproar ensued.
Mr.. PENDLEroN, United States Minister
to Germany, has left Berlin for New York.
THE chief clerk in the Paris France) post
Office, has stolen $4,000 in postal money
orders and fed.
The British gunboat Firm was wrecked
ON the Northumberland coast recently.
Nineteen Of the crew were saved by means
Of rocket apparatus of the life-saving SER
vice. The Firm was composite gunboat
of As tons and was used as tender to the
turret ship Devastation.
AT Jewish entertainment in london re-
Gently panic ensued from false alarm Of
fire. In the rush for the doors seventeen
persons were trampled to death.
ONE Of the largest strikes ever known in
Canada took place recently, when the en-
ployes of the Montreal rolling mills and
iron foundries of Messrs. Peck & Penny
and Pillow 4 Hersey went out. The num-
Der of persons involved in the strike was
about 1,1O0 mostly Knights of Labor.
The Belgian Government has prohibited
the expectation of horses until the needs Of
the cavalry in the event of war have beer
covered.
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL has given up hii
intention of seeking new trial of his di-
vorce suit against his wife.
The French Chamber of Deputies has re-
fused to abolish the indemnity for defray-
ing the expenses of religious worship in
prisons.
IT is stated that Italy has agreed to act
as mediator in the Bulgarian question on
the assurance of the Bulgarian Govern
ment that it will accept Russia's terms
with the exception of the candidacy Of the
Prince of Mingrelia.
THREE thousand Albanians have attacked
a military depot near Mitrouitza and tho
Turkish Minister of War has ordered out
troops to Quell the trouble.
The recent elections in Greece gave the
Government a majority of 100.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY was entertained at q
banquet in London on the 10Th. He was a
guest of the Prince of Wales.
Two German spies were arrested in Lyons
recently for attempting to bride French
soldiers in obtaining from them one of the
new repeating rifles with which the Gov
eminent is about to equip the army. The
spies mingled with the soldiers and after
they had became somewhat intimate with
them they offered one over 500 francs for
his rife. The soldier pretended to accept
the offer and Immediately arranged for the
arrest of the spies, which was effected
without difficulty.
A SPECIAL from Ottawa, Can. says: sOf-
ficials Of the Fisheries Department look on
the Fisheries bill as game of bluff. They
say it is poor return for six months free
use of the Canadian fisheries under prom
Use of the President of the United States
that the fisheries commission would be ap-
pointed at the next meeting of Congress.
which promise has not been carried out"
IT is reported that the German Govern
ment confiscates the property of and con-
dennis to prison by default all the residents
of Alsace- Lorraine who evade the conscrip-
ton by emigrating.
NOTICES publicly posted. inviting persons
qualified to act as overseers of military
transports to offer themselves for employ
ment by the Government in that capacity,
caused quite scare on the Vienna Bourse
recently.
A DISPATCH from Peuiche, Spain, says
that the steamer Brentford. from Newport
to Malta, has been wrecked and all on
board but one were lost.
THE French steamer Girondc, which ar
rived home from Buenos Ayres on the Goth,
had two cases of cholera on board.
THE tenants of the Viceroy of Ireland
have accepted the reduction offered them
for the present year.
THE reported sale of the steamship Amer
lea to the Italian Government is confirmed.
The terms of the sale were reported to be
s1,5OO,OO0 With the exception of the An
Choir line steamer City of Rome, the Amer
lea was one of the finest craft in the Trans
Atlantic service.
ANOTHER ministerial crisis was reported
in France on the 2lst, the budget being
rejected by the committee.
JOHN PATTON, JR, 4 Co., of London,
owners Of the Monarch line, have failed.
The New Westminster (B. c. Hotel
burned the other morning, catching fire in
an unknown place. 1t was so quickly con-
sumed that three guests were burned to
death.
MoNsIGNOR RAMPoLLA DELTINDARo. Papal
Nuncio to Madrid, has been designated to
succeed Cardinal Jacobini as Papal Secre-
tary of State.
New ZEALAND has annexed the Eermadre
Islands in the South Pacific.
ORDERS have been issued in Russian Po-
land for5idding the expectation of horses
to Austria or Prussia.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY left London on tho
2lst for Egypt.
THE LATEST.
CHARLES SMITH, prominent kngnt OF
Labor and president of the Cooperative
[,ipar Comnanv of Delaware O.. was ar.